Prosopeia Personata Bird
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Prosopeia Personata Bird
English Name:
Latin Name:
Protonym: Coracopsis ? personata Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt16 no.181 p.21 pl.3
Taxonomy: Psittaciformes / Psittaculidae / Prosopeia
Taxonomy Code: maspar2
Type Locality: New Guinea?
Author: Gray, GR
Publish Year: 1848
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
PROSOPEIA
(Psittacidae; Ϯ Masked Shining Parrot P. personata) Gr. προσωπειον prosōpeion mask < προσωπον prosōpon face; "Subfam. V. PLATICERCINÆ. 34. PROSOPEIA, Bp. — 159. Personata, Gr." (Bonaparte 1854); "Prosopeia Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. Zool. (2), 6, 1854, p. 153. Type, by monotypy, Coracopsis personata G. R. Gray." (Peters 1937, III, 250).
Synon. Layardiella, Pyrrhulopsis.
personata / personatus
L. personatus masked < persona mask.
● ex “Perroquet Geoffroy” of Levaillant 1805 (syn. Geoffroyus geoffroyi).
● ex “Chouette à Masque Noir” of Levaillant 1799, pl. 44 (syn. Pulsatrix perspicillata).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
